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GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Matt Porter is a Sr Cloud Architect at DoiT International, a strategic partner for Google Cloud Platform. At DoiT, Matt designs and debugs cloud environment architectures and implementations for companies of all sizes and cloud scales who are looking to grow their business with big data-scale operations.
Prior to DoiT, Matt designed and engineered AWS-based solutions for Washington DC and other government clients, lead a team of bioinformaticians and computer scientists at GenomeNext, and worked as a bioinformatics scientist at Bayer CropScience.
Matt received his Masters Degree in Integrated Genetics and Genomics from UC Davis, and a Bachelors in Chemistry (with a focus in Biochemistry) from University of Florida.
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0:39 - Matt's Background
1:59 - Matt's Experience as an engineer
5:26 - DoiT International Overview
10:37 - Matt's experience with GCP after extensive experience with AWS
15:34 - Common misconceptions about GCP
16:52 - Where do you think Google should invest?
26:36 - Matt's IoT Blog Series
32:03 - Advice to younger self
35:42 - Who do you look up to professionally?
To Learn More about Matt's work, visit his Blog Series: https://medium.com/@matt.porter_76759
To Learn More about DoiT International: https://www.doit-intl.com/
To listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify: digitalnativepodcast.com
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GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Amr Awadallah is a long time technology executive and founder. Now serving as the VP of Developer Relations at Google Cloud, Amr previously founded Cloudera and served as CTO for more than 11 yearas.
Before co-founding Cloudera in 2008, Amr (@awadallah) was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners. Prior to joining Accel, he served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence.
Amr joined Yahoo! after they acquired hisfirst startup, VivaSmart, in July 2000. Amr holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Follow Amr via:
+ Twitter - @awadallah
+ Linkedin - linkedin.com/in/awadallah/
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0:00 - Amrs background and journey in technology.
5:25 - How end up at Google?
7:52 - What is your role and focus as the VP of Developer Relations?
11:25 - What trends & pain points are you seeing across customers in the Enterprise?
16:53 - How is Google Cloud different?
20:55 - Why is Google so focused on providing an "Open" Cloud?
27:26 - Any GCP products you feel there should be more awareness around?
29:43 - What advice do you have for young developers?
31:21 - What's something we might not know about you outside of work?
To Learn More, visit the Google Cloud Tech YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJS9pqu9BzkAMNTmzNMNhvg
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GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Bruno Aziza is a recognized leader in the Big Data Analytics World, and now runs Data & Analytics at Google Cloud. With a specialty in Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Bruno's mission is to scale Google's Data & Analytics Business by putting Customers FIRST.
Prior to Google, Aziza held management positions at Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Business Objects (SAP), and Sisense, and appeared on The Economist, Freakonomics, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Forbes.
Follow Bruno via:
+ Medium - medium.com/be-data-driven
+ YouTube - youtube.com/brunoaziza
+ Twitter - @brunoaziza
+ Linkedin - linkedin.com/in/brunoaziza, where he hosts a Weekly Data, AI, & Analytics podcast.
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0:00 - Bruno's background in Data & Analytics
1:30 - How end up at Google?
4:50 - Tell us more about your role at Google.
6:58 - What trends are you seeing across Data & Analytics?
11:38 - Where should Enterprises get their information on technology available?
14:49 - Why are customers choosing GCP for Data & Analytics?
19:55 - How does the market perceive GCP and what are some of the misconceptions?
24:30 - What's Google's competitive advantage in data/analytics?
28:20 - How will Google be investing in its customer communities?
31:18 - Where have you failed in your career and what did you learn?
33:05 - What advice do you give to young tech employees?
36:49 - Who do you look up to in the tech community?
42:45 - What's something folks might not know about you outside of work?
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GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Jamie Davidson is the VP of Product at Looker, a business intelligence and big data analytics platform acquired by Google Cloud for $2.6 Billion. Prior to working at Looker, Jamie was a partner at Redpoint Ventures, and served as the VP of Product at HotelTonight. Early in his career, Jamie worked at Google as a Product Manager for YouTube, and a quantitative analyst for the Google Search ad system.
Jamie attend Princeton University, earning a bachelor's degree in Science and Engineering, Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
Google Cloud and Looker share a common philosophy around delivering open solutions and supporting customers wherever they are—be it on Google Cloud, in other public clouds, or on premises.
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J.R. Storment is Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation (a program of the Linux Foundation), co-author of O'Reilly's book on cloud financial management called "Cloud FinOps, Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management", and was formerly the co-founder of Cloudability which was acquired by Apptio, where he served as the GM of Cloud & VP of Product.
J.R. has spent the last 25 years building web platforms and the last 10 working with hundreds of the largest cloud spenders in the world—from GE to Nike to BP to Atlassian to Uber to Spotify— to design strategies to optimize and analyze their cloud financial management discipline.
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0:00 - J.R.'s background in business and technology
3:54 - The story of Cloudability
10:28 - How has the cloud evolved since founding Cloudability in 2011?
12:16 - Cloudability customer stories
15:00 - What is the FinOps foundation?
19:29 - How do you balance innovation and cost optimization?
22:10 - Which companies have you seen most successfully implement best practices with FinOps?
27:12 - What are you excited about what's coming in FinOps?
29:20 - What have been your biggest challenges as a tech leader? Were there any leadership skills that didn't come naturally?
31:26 - Where have you failed as a technology leader?
33:38 - J.R. talks about the loss of his son, and what he's been reflecting on for the last year.
40:45 - Given the experience, what message do you have for parents?
46:23 - What advice do you have for young professionals just starting their career?
48:13 - Which leaders do you admire in business and technology?
50:03 - What's something people might not know about you outside of work?
If you'd like to learn more about:
Finops: Finops.org
Apptio Cloudability: https://www.cloudability.com/
JR's article, It's Later Than you Think: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-later-than-you-think-j-r-storment/
Or you can find his book at: Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management: https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-FinOps-Collaborative-Real-Time-Management/dp/1492054623
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Guest Biography
Henry Schuck is the CEO and Co-Founder of ZoomInfo (formerly DiscoverOrg). Having founded Zoominfo when he was 23, Henry has led the company on a rapid-growth path. ZoomInfo IPO'd in June, raising nearly $1 billion in new capital in the largest public debut by a tech company so far this year.
ZoomInfo helps sales and marketing teams find their next best customer, and supports go-to-market operations for over 3,000 businesses around the world. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, WA.
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0:00 - What has the experience been like to IPO?
1:52 - The early days and evolution of ZoomInfo.
6:10 - What's the story of founding ZoomInfo?
11:41 - How did you compete against companies who were better funded and more experienced?
15:22 - Where does your competitiveness come from? 1
6:56 - What is the ZoomInfo platform, and how do you help your customers?
20:36 - What are some of the challenges and trends you're seeing in B2B sales?
23:27 - Is cold calling going away any time soon?
25:49 - How can sales reps use ZoomInfo to gain a competitive advantage?
29:46 - What are the strengths of the ZoomInfo platform and how is the product unique?
34:00 - How is your company's relationship with Google?
35:23 - What are you excited about on your road-map?
37:54 - What advice do you have for sales or tech people early in their careers?
40:10 - Where do you spend your time as a CEO?
42:05 - Are there any leadership skills you've had to work hard to develop?
44:16: What does success look like for the company going forward?
44:50: What's something people might not know about you outside of work?
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Guest Biography
Poul Petersen is the Chief Infrastructure Officer for BigML, a company based in Corvallis with the mission of making Machine Learning easy and beautiful for everyone.
With 20 plus years of experience building scalable and fault tolerant systems in data centers, Poul currently enjoys the benefits of programmatic infrastructure, hacking in python to run BigML with only a laptop and a cloud.
Poul has an MS degree in Mathematics as well as BS degrees in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Physics.
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0:00 - Poul's background in technology
2:49 - Poul's background in infrastructure
6:19 - What's the story of BigML?
8:33 - How are you helping your customers?
10:03 - What are the keys to making something as complex as Machine Learning simple?
11:12 - How fast is the industry moving, and has anything surprised you when it comes to the evolution of ML?
14:06 - How is the cloud impacting the ML ecosystem?
16:18 - Any common challenges you're seeing in the industry?
18:40 - How did BigML predict 8 out of 8 Oscar Winners?
23:58 - Which use cases to you recommend companies start with, and where do you see customers first engage with BigML?
27:58 - What are the strengths of the product and what makes BigML unique?
31:13 - What has the experience been like on-boarding with Google Cloud?
34:17 - What was the compelling event that caused you to evaluate GCP?
37:00 - Anything you're excited about on the roadmap?
39:40 - What are you most proud of in your time at BigML?
45:49 - Any advice for engineers early in the their career?
47:45 - Where have you failed in your career, and what did you learn?
49:48 - What's something outside of work that people might not know about you?
To learn more about BigML, you can visit:
Bigml.com
https://blog.bigml.com/2020/02/07/predicting-the-2020-oscars-winners-with-machine-learning/
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Guest Biography:
Jordan Tigani is the Chief Product Officer at MemSQL. Until recently, (and at the time of this interview) Jordan was the Director of Product Management for Google BigQuery, where he was one of the founding engineers in 2010.
Jordan has more than 20 years of professional software development experience (10 of them creating and developing BigQuery). Other previous jobs have ranged from working on machine learning at an advertising startup to Microsoft Research to working at a short-lived mobile location-based social network buzzword generator.
Jordan has a bachelor's degree from Harvard and an MS from the University of Washington.
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0:00 - Jordan's background in technology
3:15 - How did you first start working for Google?
5:30 - Take us back to the concept stage of BigQuery in 2010
8:25 - What did the cloud landscape look like when BigQuery launched?
11:46 - What are some of the trends you're seeing in the industry?
16:00 - Which industries have been the most innovative with data & analytics?
17:47 - What should companies take into consideration when selecting a data warehouse?
20:50 - Why do companies first engage with BigQuery? What are the common pain points they're experiencing?
25:55 - How is BigQuery unique and what is the competitive advantage?
32:00 - How are we helping customers act on insights from data in real time?
36:00 - Examples of customers using ML on real time data.
37:14 - BigQuery Customer stories
41:03 - What are you excited about on the BigQuery Roadmap?
44:59 - What are you most proud of in your time at Google?
47:46 - Any areas where you've changed your opinion when it comes to data & analytics?
50:20 - Where have you failed in your career?
53:20 - What's something you're interested in outside of work?
You can find his books at:
Google BigQuery Analytics: https://www.amazon.com/Google-BigQuery-Analytics-Jordan-Tigani-ebook/dp/B00JUUZIZI
BigQuery the Definitive Guide: https://www.amazon.com/Google-BigQuery-Definitive-Warehousing-Analytics-ebook/dp/B07ZHQ3MGN/ref=pd_sbsd_14_1/134-2570499-9607803?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07ZHQ3MGN&pd_rd_r=2ada4001-93ee-40ce-abbf-d7f9c2803c7d&pd_rd_w=BIU8A&pd_rd_wg=nEwG5&pf_rd_p=2c2d0d3b-b3c5-4110-93fa-2c1270309ac1&pf_rd_r=JN81Q14PVAKCM1PX4GX1&psc=1&refRID=JN81Q14PVAKCM1PX4GX1
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Guest Biography
Tisson Mathew is the CEO of Skypoint Cloud, an all-in-one unified customer data and privacy platform. Prior to SkyPoint, Tisson served as the Chief Technology Officer of Cambia Health Solutions, parent company to a family of health care businesses, including Oregon’s largest health insurer.
Earlier in his career, Tisson led the team at Amazon that built and operated the Amazon logistics technology platform that powers Amazon Prime Now, Amazon Fresh and Amazon Flex, while also working as a research scientist at Intel.
While Tisson has worked for large companies like Amazon and Intel, he's also founded several enterprise technology startup companies.
Tisson holds four U.S. patents, with three more pending, and holds a Master of Science in computer science and engineering from Oregon Health & Science University, while also completing the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University.
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0:00 - Tisson's background and journey in technology
5:19 - Tisson's journey from Intel, to starting a company, to Amazon
8:19 - The transition working at startups to a larger enterprises
11:08 - How did Skypoint Cloud start and what does the platform do?
14:09 - What challenges are companies experiencing with their customer data?
17:04 - How is Skypoint Cloud leveraging Machine Learning?
18:57 - Pros and cons of working for startups vs a large companies
22:45 - How to drive innovation in a large, more traditional company
28:56 - What are some of the major challenges as a leader of a large company, and how long do you wait until you start making changes?
35:02 - Why might a company first start using Skypoint Cloud?
39:18 - What makes Skypoint Cloud unique?
41:40 - Which GCP Products is your platform leveraging?
45:49 - Skypoint Cloud Customer Stories
48:04 - Where have you changed your opinion when it comes to technology?
52:14 - What's the most difficult part about being a technology leader?
54:36 - What advice do you have for young engineers?
57:20 - Life outside of work
To learn more about Skypoint Cloud, you can visit:
skypointcloud.com
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Guest Biography
Aparna Sinha is the Director of Product Management at Google Cloud. Named one of the "Power Women in Cloud" by Forbes, and a strategic thought leader in Enterprise Software, Aparna has a track record for creating new revenue streams and building competitive advantage through technical and go-to-market innovation. She currently runs the Developer Platforms business.
At Google, Aparna has worked on Anthos, Kubernetes, Android, ChromeOS and Play. Before Google, she was Director of Product for Storage and Data Management at NetApp, delivering the OnCommand product family, winning placement in Gartner’s “Leaders” quadrant for storage software. She was recruited to Netapp from McKinsey & Company where she was a leader in the business transformation office, working with CXOs on IT strategy, pricing, and M&A.
Aparna holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and has authored several technical and business publications. She serves on the Governing Board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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0:00 - Aperna's background and journey in technology
1:42 - How did you start working for Google?
4:02 - Where does your passion for technology come from?
5:34 - How did your parents encourage that passion from an early age?
7:48 - Aparna's role and an overview of the products her team is responsible for
9:37 - What are kubernetes and Anthos enabling Google Cloud's customers to achieve?
14:20 - What is Google's history with containers?
17:04 - What is Google's history in the Open Source community, and how is it key to Google Cloud's strategy?
20:14 - Why is Google so heavily invested in the Open Source community?
23: 34 - What is Anthos?
25:41 - What kinds of problems does this solve for our customers?
28:59 - What are some of the advantages of partnering with Google Cloud, and what does it mean to be a Googler?
32:09 - Customer stories
35:40 - Anything you're particularly excited about on the road-map?
37:46 - What's your favorite project you've been involved with while at Google?
39:43 - What's something you've changed your opinion on when it comes to technology?
42:13 - What advice do you have for people struggling with confidence? How have you built up confidence?
45:25 - When have you failed, and what did you learn?
48:01 - What advice do you have for young engineers early in their careers?
49:06 - Tell us something about yourself outside of work.
51:35 - Where can I learn more about Aparna's work and team?
To learn more about Aparna's team, you can visit:
https://cloud.google.com/serverless or
https://cloud.google.com/anthos
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GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Rick Turoczy is the founder and editor of SiliconFlorist.com, and the co-founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE). Portland tech companies who trace their roots to PIE include Airship, Cloudability, Lytics, and online banker Simple. Mildly obsessed with connecting dots (people) in the Portland, Oregon, startup community, Rick has been an advocate for startups in the Portland area for nearly 20 years. In addition to his work at PIE, Rick has advised the City of Portland and the Portland Development Commission, garnered multiple bylines in The New York Times, was named to the Portland Business Journal's "40 under 40," and appointed to the board of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO).
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0:00 - Rick's background and journey in the Portland tech startup ecosystem
6:48 - The origin of "The silicon florist" in 2005-2006.
9:50 - How did the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) start?
19:35 - What did the Portland Startup Ecosystem look like when PIE started, and how has it evolved? How has the cloud and the iphone impacted the Portland business community?
27:30 - What makes Portland so special?
30:47 - How can Portland improve, and why is the city so aggressively humble?
33:50 - What is PIE currently focused on?
38:04 - What makes being a founder so difficult?
44:02 - What kind of characteristics does Rick see from successful startup founders?
47:56 - How did you become a connector and how have you improved your networking skills?
51:49 - How do you promote yourself and company authentically on social media?
56:09 - What advice do you have for introverts around networking?
1:00:07 - Where have you failed in your career?
1:02:07 - How do we continue to foster and encourage diversity in Portland? What are the benefits of having a diverse company?
1:06:28 - What's something we might not know about you outside of work?
1:08:13 - Any books you've read during quarantine?
To learn more about Rick, you can visit:
siliconflorist.com
piepdx.com
Or watch his Ted Talk, "An Introvert's Guide to Building Community": https://www.ted.com/talks/rick_turoczy_an_introverts_guide_to_building_community
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Guest Biography
Sudhir Hasbe is an accomplished product management leader with over 20 years of experience building industry-leading products at startup and blue-chip companies. Currently the Director of Product Management for Google Cloud's Analytics Product Portfolio, his team is responsible for products like BigQuery, Dataflow, DataProc, DataPrep, PubSub and Composer.
Prior to Google, Sudhir built a high performing team that transformed zulily and enabled them to be data driven, and led the program management team to deliver the Xbox One catalog and discovery services across all domains.
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0:00 - Sudhir's background and journey in technology
3:27 - How he became the VP of Software Engineering at zulily, became a GCP customer, then joined the Google team.
7:50 - Migrating the zulily data warehouse to BigQuery
11:40 - Sudhir's role and an overview of the products his team is responsible for.
17:40 - What are some of the trends he's seeing in the industry?
24:40 - How are organizations getting value from real time data?
28:26 - How is BigQuery different, and what makes the product so special?
35:23 - What's exciting on the Analytics Product Road-map
40:04 - What has been your favorite project while working at Google?
42:41 - Where have you failed in your career?
To learn more about Sudhir's team, you can visit:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/smart-analytics#solutions or
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics
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Guest Biography
Janice is the VP of Engineering at SheerID, an Identity Marketing platform that identifies and acquires consumer tribes like military, students, and teachers with personalized offers. Janice is a software professional with 20 years of management and engineering experience. Prior to SheerID, she was an engineering leader at Lunar Logic. Based in Eugene, Oregon (aka The Silicon Shire), she and the team at SheerID are a great example of a new era of startups, doing innovative things outside of silicon valley.
Company Overview:
SheerID’s leading digital verification platform instantly verifies the identity of individuals and businesses, enabling enterprises to deliver gated offers and experiences to high-value customer segments while mitigating fraud and minimizing friction. Brands like Amazon, Lowe’s, Spotify, and T-mobile, rely on SheerID as their trusted verification partner. SheerID has offices in both Portland and Eugene, Oregon.
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Guest Biography:
Jeff is the VP of Engineering at onX. OnX is the provider of the onX HUNT mobile app and industry leader in mobile mapping technology for outdoor adventurers.
Jeff is a a technologist with experience in mobile development, numerical programming, 3D rendering systems, healthcare and GIS. He and the team at OnX are a great example of a new era of startups, doing innovative things outside of silicon valley. And what better place for an outdoors App than Montana?
Company Overview:
onX Is home to the #1 Hunting, Mapping, Wind & Weather Tool Used by Millions On & Offline. By aggregating nationwide data on property ownership, trails, permitted land use, and many other parameters, onX delivers the most relevant and rich geospatial data to any device, anywhere. The company is based in Missoula, Montana.
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Guest Biography:
Lak is Head for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud. His team builds software solutions for business problems using Google Cloud's data analytics and machine learning products. He is the author of Data Science on GCP (O'Reilly), BigQuery the Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) and Machine Learning on GCP and Advanced Machine Learning on GCP (Coursera). He founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab ML Immersion program. Before Google, Lak was a Director of Data Science at Climate Corporation and a Research Scientist at NOAA. Follow him on Twitter at @lak_gcp.
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0:00 - Introduction and Lak's background in Machine Learning (pattern recognition)
2:07 - How Lak started at Google, and his career working in weather
3:50 - Lak's first experience with analytics in the cloud, and how coud would fundamentally change the way we did large analtyics
6:28 - What does Lak's team do at Google Cloud?
11:16 - How quickly is the landscape evolving when it comes to AI/ML?
14:42 - What are some of the trends Lak see's when it comes to Analytics and ML?
19:30 - What kinds of opportunities and threats is this creating for businesses?
22:55 - What are the top challenges for enterprise leaders in this space?
25:45 - How do you find the right people to hire in this space?
27:22 - What are some of the common misconceptions and mistakes you see being made?
29:32 - What are some of the competitive advantages and things that make GCP unique when it comes to data & analytics?
33:54 - Which products do you recommend people start with, and what do they enable our customers to achieve?
35:15 - Any compelling themes why people start using BigQuery?
36:43 - Any favorite projects you've been involved with while at Google, and what are some of your favorite products?
39:34 - What's something you've changed your opinion on when it comes to AI/ML?42:26 - What are some of the mistakes you've made in your career?
44:03 - What advice do you have for young engineers looking to get into ML?
45:22 - What's something folks might not know about you outside of work?
If you'd like to learn more about:
Lak's Current team: https://cloud.google.com/solutions
His previous team: https://cloud.google.com/training/data-ml
Or you can find his books at:
Data Science on GCP: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Google-Cloud-Platform/dp/1491974567
BigQuery the Definitive Guide: https://www.amazon.com/Google-BigQuery-Definitive-Warehousing-Analytics-ebook/dp/B07ZHQ3MGN/ref=pd_sbsd_14_1/134-2570499-9607803?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07ZHQ3MGN&pd_rd_r=2ada4001-93ee-40ce-abbf-d7f9c2803c7d&pd_rd_w=BIU8A&pd_rd_wg=nEwG5&pf_rd_p=2c2d0d3b-b3c5-4110-93fa-2c1270309ac1&pf_rd_r=JN81Q14PVAKCM1PX4GX1&psc=1&refRID=JN81Q14PVAKCM1PX4GX1
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Guest Biography:
Dan is a software architect and data scientist with extensive experience in data science, big data, machine learning, stream processing, and cloud architecture. Most recently, he is a principal engineer/architect at New Relic in Portland Oregon.
Dan is also the author of the official Google Cloud study guides for the Professional Architect, Professional Data Engineer, and Associate Cloud Engineer. He holds a Ph.D. in genetics, bioinformatics and computational biology with primary emphasis on infectious disease genomics and text mining.
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Guest Biography:
Phil is the CTO at IGNW, a digital strategies and consulting firm based in Portland, Oregon. A self proclaimed "geek with a business mind," over the last 20 years Phil has been building software products for both the private industry and startups, several of which has founded.
Phil is a strong believer that the market will shape your product, if you will just listen to what your customers want. He subscribes to the lean startup philosophy and agile software development practices.
Company Overview:IGNW is a digital strategies and consulting firm founded on the idea of open source. They partner with companies like Google Cloud, so they can offer open APIs, making it easier to build custom solutions to meet their customers' unique business goals.
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Guest Biographies:
Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends (www.http://digitaltrends.com), DT Español (http://es.digitaltrends.com) and The Manual (http://www.themanual.com/).
Brandon Clark the Director of Engineering at Digital Trends, and a jack of all trades when it comes to IT. In his time at Digital Trends, he has scaled up digitaltrends.com to be able to handle 30M unique monthly visitors.
Company Overview:
Digital Trends is a technology news, lifestyle, and information website that publishes news, reviews, guides, how-to articles, descriptive videos and podcasts about technology and consumer electronics products. Digital Trends draws more than 30 million unique visitors to its site each month—and more than 100 million when accounting for distributed content, video and social media—all without taking on outside funding or compromising on its core mantra, “Tech for the way you live,”
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Guest Biography:
Mike is the SVP Technology at Airship. Mike is a passionate and collaborative product and engineering leader, who consistently finds a way to deliver products that his customers love. In his role at Airship, Mike leads Technology organization comprised of Product & Design, Engineering, & Infrastructure teams.
Company Overview:
Founded in 2009 as a pioneer in push notifications, Airship now gives brands the user-level data, engagement channels, AI orchestration and services they need to deliver push notifications, emails, SMS, in-app messages, mobile wallet cards and more to exactly the right person in exactly the right moment — building trust, boosting engagement, driving action and growing value.
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Guest Biography:
Erik is the CTO at Bumped, a platform that rewards customers in fractional shares of stock. A well known startup tech executive, Erik helped build out the infrastructure in leadership positions at Jive Software, Airship, and most recently Cloudability. Erik has lived in Portland, Oregon since 2006.
Company Overview:
Bumped is a platform that gives banks, brands and businesses the ability to reward customers in fractional shares of stock. Our mission is to help build meaningful relationships between brands and their customers. We’ve built the technology that rewards customers with fractional shares of stock, empowering consumers to become shareholders. By creating access to ownership, brands, financial institutions, and businesses can cultivate stronger, more loyal relationships. Financial institutions, brands, and consumers can learn more about how stock rewards can work for their unique goals at Bumped.com.
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